Israeli aircraft have struck Syrian army targets after rockets were fired at the occupied Golan Heights, the Israeli military says. Three Syrian soldiers were killed in the overnight strike, Syrian state media said on Sunday. Israel seized the Golan from Syria in 1967 and later in effect annexed it, in a move not recognised internationally. […]

JERUSALEM — For years, Palestinians in the crowded East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan have complained that the walls of their homes were settling and cracking, disturbed by an underground archaeological dig led by a right-wing Jewish settler group. On Sunday, when that dig was officially unveiled, not with a ribbon-cutting but with the ceremonial smashing […]

Reports of one protester killed as tens of thousands take part in mass demonstrations, dubbed the ‘millions march’. Tens of thousands of protesters have poured onto the streets of Khartoum and elsewhere as part of mass rallies aimed at pressuring Sudan’s ruling generals to hand over power to a civilian-led administration and seeking justice for […]

Ethiopian envoy says protest movement agrees to suspend disobedience campaign and TMC will free political prisoners. Protest leaders in Sudan have agreed to suspend a civil disobedience campaign launched after a bloody crackdown on demonstrators and resume negotiations with the country’s ruling generals on the formation of a transitional sovereign council, an Ethiopian envoy has […]

UN body halts distributions as 300,000 flee rebel-held Idlib to Turkey border amid ongoing air raids. A bombing campaign by Russian-backed Syrian government forces against a string of rebel-held towns and villages in Syria’s northwest has hampered food distributions in the area, the United Nations food agency has warned. The World Food Programme (WFP) and its partners at […]

Samer Foz blacklisted for allegedly developing buildings on land ‘stolen’ from those fleeing Assad ‘brutality’. The United States has imposed sanctions on Samer Foz, a Syrian industrialist behind high-end developments, including the Four Seasons hotel in Damascus, for allegedly enriching President Bashar al-Assad. “This Syrian oligarch is directly supporting the murderous Assad regime and building luxury […]

Self-exiled MQM leader arrested as part of probe into speeches he made in 2016, say Pakistani media reports. British police have arrested self-exiled Pakistani politician Altaf Hussain as part of an investigation into his speeches made in 2016, according to media in Pakistan. Hussain, 65, is a leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a […]

OSAKA, Japan — Barely a week ago, he was in theory a marked man, fingered by the United Nations as the probable mastermind behind one of the most grisly and sensational murders of recent years. But Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia has been wandering around the world stage in Japan the last […]

Police close venues saying ‘observing Islamic principles is one of the police’s main missions and responsibilities’. Iranian police have shut down 547 restaurants and cafes in Tehran for not observing “Islamic principles”, the capital’s police chief has said. “The owners of restaurants and cafes in which Islamic principles were not observed were confronted, and during this operation, 547 businesses […]

Murtaja Qureiris reportedly faces execution for offences including participating in protests when he was 10 years old. Amnesty International has urged Saudi Arabia to rule out the death penalty for a teenage boy who was arrested five years ago. Murtaja Qureiris was arrested at the age of 13 for taking part in protests against the government […]